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10c5ecbb 1#
e8c86ba6 2# $Id: Encode.pm,v 1.65 2002/04/30 16:13:37 dankogai Exp dankogai $
10c5ecbb 3#
2c674647 4package Encode;
51ef4e11 5use strict;
e8c86ba6 6our $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 1.65 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r };
5129552c 7our $DEBUG = 0;
6d1c0808 8use XSLoader ();
10c5ecbb 9XSLoader::load(__PACKAGE__, $VERSION);
2c674647 10
2c674647 11require Exporter;
7e19fb92 12use base qw/Exporter/;
2c674647 13
4411f3b6 14# Public, encouraged API is exported by default
85982a32 15
16our @EXPORT = qw(
17 decode decode_utf8 encode encode_utf8
18 encodings find_encoding
4411f3b6 19);
20
b7a5c9de 21our @FB_FLAGS = qw(DIE_ON_ERR WARN_ON_ERR RETURN_ON_ERR LEAVE_SRC
af1f55d9 22 PERLQQ HTMLCREF XMLCREF);
b7a5c9de 23our @FB_CONSTS = qw(FB_DEFAULT FB_CROAK FB_QUIET FB_WARN
af1f55d9 24 FB_PERLQQ FB_HTMLCREF FB_XMLCREF);
85982a32 25
51ef4e11 26our @EXPORT_OK =
6d1c0808 27 (
85982a32 28 qw(
29 _utf8_off _utf8_on define_encoding from_to is_16bit is_8bit
30 is_utf8 perlio_ok resolve_alias utf8_downgrade utf8_upgrade
31 ),
32 @FB_FLAGS, @FB_CONSTS,
33 );
34
6d1c0808 35our %EXPORT_TAGS =
85982a32 36 (
37 all => [ @EXPORT, @EXPORT_OK ],
38 fallbacks => [ @FB_CONSTS ],
39 fallback_all => [ @FB_CONSTS, @FB_FLAGS ],
40 );
41
4411f3b6 42# Documentation moved after __END__ for speed - NI-S
2c674647 43
a63c962f 44our $ON_EBCDIC = (ord("A") == 193);
f2a2953c 45
5d030b67 46use Encode::Alias;
47
5129552c 48# Make a %Encoding package variable to allow a certain amount of cheating
49our %Encoding;
aae85ceb 50our %ExtModule;
51require Encode::Config;
52eval { require Encode::ConfigLocal };
5129552c 53
656753f8 54sub encodings
55{
5129552c 56 my $class = shift;
fc17bd48 57 my %enc;
58 if (@_ and $_[0] eq ":all"){
59 %enc = ( %Encoding, %ExtModule );
60 }else{
61 %enc = %Encoding;
62 for my $mod (map {m/::/o ? $_ : "Encode::$_" } @_){
63 $DEBUG and warn $mod;
64 for my $enc (keys %ExtModule){
65 $ExtModule{$enc} eq $mod and $enc{$enc} = $mod;
66 }
67 }
5129552c 68 }
69 return
ce912cd4 70 sort { lc $a cmp lc $b }
fc17bd48 71 grep {!/^(?:Internal|Unicode|Guess)$/o} keys %enc;
51ef4e11 72}
73
85982a32 74sub perlio_ok{
0ab8f81e 75 my $obj = ref($_[0]) ? $_[0] : find_encoding($_[0]);
011b2d2f 76 $obj->can("perlio_ok") and return $obj->perlio_ok();
0ab8f81e 77 return 0; # safety net
85982a32 78}
79
51ef4e11 80sub define_encoding
81{
18586f54 82 my $obj = shift;
83 my $name = shift;
5129552c 84 $Encoding{$name} = $obj;
18586f54 85 my $lc = lc($name);
86 define_alias($lc => $obj) unless $lc eq $name;
10c5ecbb 87 while (@_){
18586f54 88 my $alias = shift;
10c5ecbb 89 define_alias($alias, $obj);
18586f54 90 }
91 return $obj;
656753f8 92}
93
656753f8 94sub getEncoding
95{
10c5ecbb 96 my ($class, $name, $skip_external) = @_;
97
98 ref($name) && $name->can('new_sequence') and return $name;
99 exists $Encoding{$name} and return $Encoding{$name};
18586f54 100 my $lc = lc $name;
10c5ecbb 101 exists $Encoding{$lc} and return $Encoding{$lc};
c50d192e 102
5129552c 103 my $oc = $class->find_alias($name);
10c5ecbb 104 defined($oc) and return $oc;
105 $lc ne $name and $oc = $class->find_alias($lc);
106 defined($oc) and return $oc;
c50d192e 107
c731e18e 108 unless ($skip_external)
d1ed7747 109 {
c731e18e 110 if (my $mod = $ExtModule{$name} || $ExtModule{$lc}){
111 $mod =~ s,::,/,g ; $mod .= '.pm';
112 eval{ require $mod; };
10c5ecbb 113 exists $Encoding{$name} and return $Encoding{$name};
c731e18e 114 }
d1ed7747 115 }
18586f54 116 return;
656753f8 117}
118
4411f3b6 119sub find_encoding
120{
10c5ecbb 121 my ($name, $skip_external) = @_;
dd9703c9 122 return __PACKAGE__->getEncoding($name,$skip_external);
4411f3b6 123}
124
fcb875d4 125sub resolve_alias {
126 my $obj = find_encoding(shift);
127 defined $obj and return $obj->name;
128 return;
129}
130
b2704119 131sub encode($$;$)
4411f3b6 132{
e8c86ba6 133 my ($name, $string, $check) = @_;
134 defined $string or return;
b2704119 135 $check ||=0;
18586f54 136 my $enc = find_encoding($name);
10c5ecbb 137 unless(defined $enc){
138 require Carp;
139 Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$name'");
140 }
18586f54 141 my $octets = $enc->encode($string,$check);
142 return undef if ($check && length($string));
143 return $octets;
4411f3b6 144}
145
b2704119 146sub decode($$;$)
4411f3b6 147{
18586f54 148 my ($name,$octets,$check) = @_;
e8c86ba6 149 defined $octets or return;
b2704119 150 $check ||=0;
18586f54 151 my $enc = find_encoding($name);
10c5ecbb 152 unless(defined $enc){
153 require Carp;
154 Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$name'");
155 }
18586f54 156 my $string = $enc->decode($octets,$check);
157 $_[1] = $octets if $check;
158 return $string;
4411f3b6 159}
160
b2704119 161sub from_to($$$;$)
4411f3b6 162{
18586f54 163 my ($string,$from,$to,$check) = @_;
e8c86ba6 164 defined $string or return;
b2704119 165 $check ||=0;
18586f54 166 my $f = find_encoding($from);
10c5ecbb 167 unless (defined $f){
168 require Carp;
169 Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$from'");
170 }
18586f54 171 my $t = find_encoding($to);
10c5ecbb 172 unless (defined $t){
173 require Carp;
174 Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$to'");
175 }
18586f54 176 my $uni = $f->decode($string,$check);
177 return undef if ($check && length($string));
a999c27c 178 $string = $t->encode($uni,$check);
18586f54 179 return undef if ($check && length($uni));
3ef515df 180 return defined($_[0] = $string) ? length($string) : undef ;
4411f3b6 181}
182
b2704119 183sub encode_utf8($)
4411f3b6 184{
18586f54 185 my ($str) = @_;
e8c86ba6 186 defined $str or return;
c731e18e 187 utf8::encode($str);
18586f54 188 return $str;
4411f3b6 189}
190
b2704119 191sub decode_utf8($)
4411f3b6 192{
18586f54 193 my ($str) = @_;
e8c86ba6 194 defined $str or return;
18586f54 195 return undef unless utf8::decode($str);
196 return $str;
5ad8ef52 197}
198
f2a2953c 199predefine_encodings();
200
201#
202# This is to restore %Encoding if really needed;
203#
10c5ecbb 204
f2a2953c 205sub predefine_encodings{
10c5ecbb 206 use Encode::Encoding;
6d1c0808 207 if ($ON_EBCDIC) {
f2a2953c 208 # was in Encode::UTF_EBCDIC
209 package Encode::UTF_EBCDIC;
10c5ecbb 210 push @Encode::UTF_EBCDIC::ISA, 'Encode::Encoding';
f2a2953c 211 *decode = sub{
212 my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_;
213 my $res = '';
214 for (my $i = 0; $i < length($str); $i++) {
6d1c0808 215 $res .=
f2a2953c 216 chr(utf8::unicode_to_native(ord(substr($str,$i,1))));
217 }
218 $_[1] = '' if $chk;
219 return $res;
220 };
221 *encode = sub{
222 my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_;
223 my $res = '';
224 for (my $i = 0; $i < length($str); $i++) {
6d1c0808 225 $res .=
f2a2953c 226 chr(utf8::native_to_unicode(ord(substr($str,$i,1))));
227 }
228 $_[1] = '' if $chk;
229 return $res;
230 };
6d1c0808 231 $Encode::Encoding{Unicode} =
c731e18e 232 bless {Name => "UTF_EBCDIC"} => "Encode::UTF_EBCDIC";
6d1c0808 233 } else {
f2a2953c 234 package Encode::Internal;
10c5ecbb 235 push @Encode::Internal::ISA, 'Encode::Encoding';
f2a2953c 236 *decode = sub{
237 my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_;
238 utf8::upgrade($str);
239 $_[1] = '' if $chk;
240 return $str;
241 };
242 *encode = \&decode;
6d1c0808 243 $Encode::Encoding{Unicode} =
c731e18e 244 bless {Name => "Internal"} => "Encode::Internal";
f2a2953c 245 }
246
247 {
248 # was in Encode::utf8
249 package Encode::utf8;
10c5ecbb 250 push @Encode::utf8::ISA, 'Encode::Encoding';
f2a2953c 251 *decode = sub{
252 my ($obj,$octets,$chk) = @_;
253 my $str = Encode::decode_utf8($octets);
254 if (defined $str) {
255 $_[1] = '' if $chk;
256 return $str;
257 }
258 return undef;
259 };
260 *encode = sub {
261 my ($obj,$string,$chk) = @_;
262 my $octets = Encode::encode_utf8($string);
263 $_[1] = '' if $chk;
264 return $octets;
265 };
b7a5c9de 266 $Encode::Encoding{utf8} =
c731e18e 267 bless {Name => "utf8"} => "Encode::utf8";
f2a2953c 268 }
f2a2953c 269}
270
656753f8 2711;
272
2a936312 273__END__
274
4411f3b6 275=head1 NAME
276
277Encode - character encodings
278
279=head1 SYNOPSIS
280
281 use Encode;
282
67d7b5ef 283=head2 Table of Contents
284
0ab8f81e 285Encode consists of a collection of modules whose details are too big
67d7b5ef 286to fit in one document. This POD itself explains the top-level APIs
6d1c0808 287and general topics at a glance. For other topics and more details,
0ab8f81e 288see the PODs below:
67d7b5ef 289
290 Name Description
291 --------------------------------------------------------
6d1c0808 292 Encode::Alias Alias definitions to encodings
67d7b5ef 293 Encode::Encoding Encode Implementation Base Class
294 Encode::Supported List of Supported Encodings
295 Encode::CN Simplified Chinese Encodings
296 Encode::JP Japanese Encodings
297 Encode::KR Korean Encodings
298 Encode::TW Traditional Chinese Encodings
299 --------------------------------------------------------
300
4411f3b6 301=head1 DESCRIPTION
302
47bfe92f 303The C<Encode> module provides the interfaces between Perl's strings
67d7b5ef 304and the rest of the system. Perl strings are sequences of
305B<characters>.
306
307The repertoire of characters that Perl can represent is at least that
308defined by the Unicode Consortium. On most platforms the ordinal
309values of the characters (as returned by C<ord(ch)>) is the "Unicode
310codepoint" for the character (the exceptions are those platforms where
311the legacy encoding is some variant of EBCDIC rather than a super-set
312of ASCII - see L<perlebcdic>).
313
0ab8f81e 314Traditionally, computer data has been moved around in 8-bit chunks
67d7b5ef 315often called "bytes". These chunks are also known as "octets" in
316networking standards. Perl is widely used to manipulate data of many
317types - not only strings of characters representing human or computer
0ab8f81e 318languages but also "binary" data being the machine's representation of
67d7b5ef 319numbers, pixels in an image - or just about anything.
320
0ab8f81e 321When Perl is processing "binary data", the programmer wants Perl to
67d7b5ef 322process "sequences of bytes". This is not a problem for Perl - as a
0ab8f81e 323byte has 256 possible values, it easily fits in Perl's much larger
67d7b5ef 324"logical character".
325
326=head2 TERMINOLOGY
4411f3b6 327
7e19fb92 328=over 2
21938dfa 329
67d7b5ef 330=item *
331
332I<character>: a character in the range 0..(2**32-1) (or more).
333(What Perl's strings are made of.)
334
335=item *
336
337I<byte>: a character in the range 0..255
338(A special case of a Perl character.)
339
340=item *
341
342I<octet>: 8 bits of data, with ordinal values 0..255
0ab8f81e 343(Term for bytes passed to or from a non-Perl context, e.g. a disk file.)
67d7b5ef 344
345=back
4411f3b6 346
67d7b5ef 347=head1 PERL ENCODING API
4411f3b6 348
7e19fb92 349=over 2
4411f3b6 350
b7a5c9de 351=item $octets = encode(ENCODING, $string [, CHECK])
4411f3b6 352
0ab8f81e 353Encodes a string from Perl's internal form into I<ENCODING> and returns
67d7b5ef 354a sequence of octets. ENCODING can be either a canonical name or
0ab8f81e 355an alias. For encoding names and aliases, see L</"Defining Aliases">.
356For CHECK, see L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
4411f3b6 357
b7a5c9de 358For example, to convert a string from Perl's internal format to
6d1c0808 359iso-8859-1 (also known as Latin1),
681a7c68 360
b7a5c9de 361 $octets = encode("iso-8859-1", $string);
7e19fb92 362
b7a5c9de 363B<CAVEAT>: When you run C<$octets = encode("utf8", $string)>, then $octets
364B<may not be equal to> $string. Though they both contain the same data, the utf8 flag
7e19fb92 365for $octets is B<always> off. When you encode anything, utf8 flag of
366the result is always off, even when it contains completely valid utf8
367string. See L</"The UTF-8 flag"> below.
681a7c68 368
b7a5c9de 369=item $string = decode(ENCODING, $octets [, CHECK])
4411f3b6 370
0ab8f81e 371Decodes a sequence of octets assumed to be in I<ENCODING> into Perl's
372internal form and returns the resulting string. As in encode(),
373ENCODING can be either a canonical name or an alias. For encoding names
374and aliases, see L</"Defining Aliases">. For CHECK, see
47bfe92f 375L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
376
b7a5c9de 377For example, to convert ISO-8859-1 data to a string in Perl's internal format:
681a7c68 378
b7a5c9de 379 $string = decode("iso-8859-1", $octets);
681a7c68 380
b7a5c9de 381B<CAVEAT>: When you run C<$string = decode("utf8", $octets)>, then $string
382B<may not be equal to> $octets. Though they both contain the same data,
383the utf8 flag for $string is on unless $octets entirely consists of
7e19fb92 384ASCII data (or EBCDIC on EBCDIC machines). See L</"The UTF-8 flag">
385below.
47bfe92f 386
b7a5c9de 387=item [$length =] from_to($octets, FROM_ENC, TO_ENC [, CHECK])
7e19fb92 388
b7a5c9de 389Converts B<in-place> data between two encodings. The data in $octets
390must be encoded as octets and not as characters in Perl's internal
391format. For example, to convert ISO-8859-1 data to Microsoft's CP1250 encoding:
2b106fbe 392
b7a5c9de 393 from_to($octets, "iso-8859-1", "cp1250");
2b106fbe 394
395and to convert it back:
396
b7a5c9de 397 from_to($octets, "cp1250", "iso-8859-1");
4411f3b6 398
ab97ca19 399Note that because the conversion happens in place, the data to be
0ab8f81e 400converted cannot be a string constant; it must be a scalar variable.
ab97ca19 401
b7a5c9de 402from_to() returns the length of the converted string in octets on success, undef
3ef515df 403otherwise.
404
b7a5c9de 405B<CAVEAT>: The following operations look the same but are not quite so;
7e19fb92 406
b7a5c9de 407 from_to($data, "iso-8859-1", "utf8"); #1
7e19fb92 408 $data = decode("iso-8859-1", $data); #2
4411f3b6 409
b7a5c9de 410Both #1 and #2 make $data consist of a completely valid UTF-8 string
7e19fb92 411but only #2 turns utf8 flag on. #1 is equivalent to
f2a2953c 412
7e19fb92 413 $data = encode("utf8", decode("iso-8859-1", $data));
f2a2953c 414
7e19fb92 415See L</"The UTF-8 flag"> below.
f2a2953c 416
417=item $octets = encode_utf8($string);
418
7e19fb92 419Equivalent to C<$octets = encode("utf8", $string);> The characters
b7a5c9de 420that comprise $string are encoded in Perl's internal format and the
421result is returned as a sequence of octets. All possible
7e19fb92 422characters have a UTF-8 representation so this function cannot fail.
423
f2a2953c 424
425=item $string = decode_utf8($octets [, CHECK]);
426
7e19fb92 427equivalent to C<$string = decode("utf8", $octets [, CHECK])>.
b7a5c9de 428The sequence of octets represented by
7e19fb92 429$octets is decoded from UTF-8 into a sequence of logical
430characters. Not all sequences of octets form valid UTF-8 encodings, so
431it is possible for this call to fail. For CHECK, see
432L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
f2a2953c 433
434=back
435
51ef4e11 436=head2 Listing available encodings
437
5129552c 438 use Encode;
439 @list = Encode->encodings();
440
441Returns a list of the canonical names of the available encodings that
442are loaded. To get a list of all available encodings including the
443ones that are not loaded yet, say
444
445 @all_encodings = Encode->encodings(":all");
446
0ab8f81e 447Or you can give the name of a specific module.
5129552c 448
c731e18e 449 @with_jp = Encode->encodings("Encode::JP");
450
451When "::" is not in the name, "Encode::" is assumed.
51ef4e11 452
c731e18e 453 @ebcdic = Encode->encodings("EBCDIC");
5d030b67 454
0ab8f81e 455To find out in detail which encodings are supported by this package,
5d030b67 456see L<Encode::Supported>.
51ef4e11 457
458=head2 Defining Aliases
459
0ab8f81e 460To add a new alias to a given encoding, use:
67d7b5ef 461
5129552c 462 use Encode;
463 use Encode::Alias;
a63c962f 464 define_alias(newName => ENCODING);
51ef4e11 465
3ef515df 466After that, newName can be used as an alias for ENCODING.
f2a2953c 467ENCODING may be either the name of an encoding or an
468I<encoding object>
51ef4e11 469
fcb875d4 470But before you do so, make sure the alias is nonexistent with
471C<resolve_alias()>, which returns the canonical name thereof.
472i.e.
473
474 Encode::resolve_alias("latin1") eq "iso-8859-1" # true
475 Encode::resolve_alias("iso-8859-12") # false; nonexistent
476 Encode::resolve_alias($name) eq $name # true if $name is canonical
477
0ab8f81e 478resolve_alias() does not need C<use Encode::Alias>; it can be
479exported via C<use Encode qw(resolve_alias)>.
fcb875d4 480
0ab8f81e 481See L<Encode::Alias> for details.
51ef4e11 482
85982a32 483=head1 Encoding via PerlIO
4411f3b6 484
b7a5c9de 485If your perl supports I<PerlIO> (which is the default), you can use a PerlIO layer to decode
0ab8f81e 486and encode directly via a filehandle. The following two examples
487are totally identical in their functionality.
4411f3b6 488
85982a32 489 # via PerlIO
490 open my $in, "<:encoding(shiftjis)", $infile or die;
491 open my $out, ">:encoding(euc-jp)", $outfile or die;
b7a5c9de 492 while(<$in>){ print $out $_; }
8e86646e 493
85982a32 494 # via from_to
0ab8f81e 495 open my $in, "<", $infile or die;
496 open my $out, ">", $outfile or die;
b7a5c9de 497 while(<$in>){
0ab8f81e 498 from_to($_, "shiftjis", "euc-jp", 1);
b7a5c9de 499 print $out $_;
85982a32 500 }
4411f3b6 501
b7a5c9de 502Unfortunately, it may be that encodings are PerlIO-savvy. You can check
0ab8f81e 503if your encoding is supported by PerlIO by calling the C<perlio_ok>
504method.
505
506 Encode::perlio_ok("hz"); # False
507 find_encoding("euc-cn")->perlio_ok; # True where PerlIO is available
508
509 use Encode qw(perlio_ok); # exported upon request
510 perlio_ok("euc-jp")
4411f3b6 511
0ab8f81e 512Fortunately, all encodings that come with Encode core are PerlIO-savvy
b7a5c9de 513except for hz and ISO-2022-kr. For gory details, see L<Encode::Encoding> and L<Encode::PerlIO>.
4411f3b6 514
85982a32 515=head1 Handling Malformed Data
4411f3b6 516
7e19fb92 517=over 2
47bfe92f 518
0ab8f81e 519The I<CHECK> argument is used as follows. When you omit it,
520the behaviour is the same as if you had passed a value of 0 for
521I<CHECK>.
47bfe92f 522
85982a32 523=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_DEFAULT ( == 0)
47bfe92f 524
0ab8f81e 525If I<CHECK> is 0, (en|de)code will put a I<substitution character>
526in place of a malformed character. For UCM-based encodings,
b7a5c9de 527E<lt>subcharE<gt> will be used. For Unicode, the code point C<0xFFFD> is used.
0ab8f81e 528If the data is supposed to be UTF-8, an optional lexical warning
529(category utf8) is given.
e9692b5b 530
7e19fb92 531=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_CROAK ( == 1)
e9692b5b 532
b7a5c9de 533If I<CHECK> is 1, methods will die on error immediately with an error
0ab8f81e 534message. Therefore, when I<CHECK> is set to 1, you should trap the
535fatal error with eval{} unless you really want to let it die on error.
47bfe92f 536
85982a32 537=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_QUIET
47bfe92f 538
85982a32 539If I<CHECK> is set to Encode::FB_QUIET, (en|de)code will immediately
0ab8f81e 540return the portion of the data that has been processed so far when
541an error occurs. The data argument will be overwritten with
542everything after that point (that is, the unprocessed part of data).
543This is handy when you have to call decode repeatedly in the case
544where your source data may contain partial multi-byte character
545sequences, for example because you are reading with a fixed-width
546buffer. Here is some sample code that does exactly this:
4411f3b6 547
b7a5c9de 548 my $data = ''; my $utf8 = '';
85982a32 549 while(defined(read $fh, $buffer, 256)){
0ab8f81e 550 # buffer may end in a partial character so we append
85982a32 551 $data .= $buffer;
552 $utf8 .= decode($encoding, $data, ENCODE::FB_QUIET);
0ab8f81e 553 # $data now contains the unprocessed partial character
85982a32 554 }
1768d7eb 555
85982a32 556=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_WARN
67d7b5ef 557
0ab8f81e 558This is the same as above, except that it warns on error. Handy when
559you are debugging the mode above.
85982a32 560
561=item perlqq mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_PERLQQ)
562
af1f55d9 563=item HTML charref mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_HTMLCREF)
564
565=item XML charref mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_XMLCREF)
566
85982a32 567For encodings that are implemented by Encode::XS, CHECK ==
568Encode::FB_PERLQQ turns (en|de)code into C<perlqq> fallback mode.
569
b7a5c9de 570When you decode, C<\xI<HH>> will be inserted for a malformed character,
571where I<HH> is the hex representation of the octet that could not be
572decoded to utf8. And when you encode, C<\x{I<HHHH>}> will be inserted,
573where I<HHHH> is the Unicode ID of the character that cannot be found
0ab8f81e 574in the character repertoire of the encoding.
85982a32 575
af1f55d9 576HTML/XML character reference modes are about the same, in place of
b7a5c9de 577C<\x{I<HHHH>}>, HTML uses C<&#I<NNNN>>; where I<NNNN> is a decimal digit and
578XML uses C<&#xI<HHHH>>; where I<HHHH> is the hexadecimal digit.
af1f55d9 579
85982a32 580=item The bitmask
581
0ab8f81e 582These modes are actually set via a bitmask. Here is how the FB_XX
583constants are laid out. You can import the FB_XX constants via
584C<use Encode qw(:fallbacks)>; you can import the generic bitmask
585constants via C<use Encode qw(:fallback_all)>.
85982a32 586
b0b300a3 587 FB_DEFAULT FB_CROAK FB_QUIET FB_WARN FB_PERLQQ
588 DIE_ON_ERR 0x0001 X
589 WARN_ON_ER 0x0002 X
590 RETURN_ON_ERR 0x0004 X X
591 LEAVE_SRC 0x0008
592 PERLQQ 0x0100 X
b7a5c9de 593 HTMLCREF 0x0200
594 XMLCREF 0x0400
67d7b5ef 595
0ab8f81e 596=head2 Unimplemented fallback schemes
67d7b5ef 597
0ab8f81e 598In the future, you will be able to use a code reference to a callback
f2a2953c 599function for the value of I<CHECK> but its API is still undecided.
67d7b5ef 600
601=head1 Defining Encodings
602
603To define a new encoding, use:
604
b7a5c9de 605 use Encode qw(define_encoding);
67d7b5ef 606 define_encoding($object, 'canonicalName' [, alias...]);
607
608I<canonicalName> will be associated with I<$object>. The object
0ab8f81e 609should provide the interface described in L<Encode::Encoding>.
67d7b5ef 610If more than two arguments are provided then additional
b7a5c9de 611arguments are taken as aliases for I<$object>.
67d7b5ef 612
f2a2953c 613See L<Encode::Encoding> for more details.
614
7e19fb92 615=head1 The UTF-8 flag
616
617Before the introduction of utf8 support in perl, The C<eq> operator
b7a5c9de 618just compared the strings represented by two scalars. Beginning with
619perl 5.8, C<eq> compares two strings with simultaneous consideration
620of I<the utf8 flag>. To explain why we made it so, I will quote page
621402 of C<Programming Perl, 3rd ed.>
7e19fb92 622
623=over 2
624
625=item Goal #1:
626
627Old byte-oriented programs should not spontaneously break on the old
628byte-oriented data they used to work on.
629
630=item Goal #2:
631
632Old byte-oriented programs should magically start working on the new
633character-oriented data when appropriate.
634
635=item Goal #3:
636
637Programs should run just as fast in the new character-oriented mode
638as in the old byte-oriented mode.
639
640=item Goal #4:
641
642Perl should remain one language, rather than forking into a
643byte-oriented Perl and a character-oriented Perl.
644
645=back
646
647Back when C<Programming Perl, 3rd ed.> was written, not even Perl 5.6.0
648was born and many features documented in the book remained
b7a5c9de 649unimplemented for a long time. Perl 5.8 corrected this and the introduction
650of the UTF-8 flag is one of them. You can think of this perl notion as of a
651byte-oriented mode (utf8 flag off) and a character-oriented mode (utf8
7e19fb92 652flag on).
653
654Here is how Encode takes care of the utf8 flag.
655
4bdf5738 656=over 2
7e19fb92 657
658=item *
659
660When you encode, the resulting utf8 flag is always off.
661
662=item
663
b7a5c9de 664When you decode, the resulting utf8 flag is on unless you can
7e19fb92 665unambiguously represent data. Here is the definition of
666dis-ambiguity.
667
b7a5c9de 668After C<$utf8 = decode('foo', $octet);>,
7e19fb92 669
670 When $octet is... The utf8 flag in $utf8 is
671 ---------------------------------------------
672 In ASCII only (or EBCDIC only) OFF
673 In ISO-8859-1 ON
674 In any other Encoding ON
675 ---------------------------------------------
676
677As you see, there is one exception, In ASCII. That way you can assue
678Goal #1. And with Encode Goal #2 is assumed but you still have to be
679careful in such cases mentioned in B<CAVEAT> paragraphs.
680
681This utf8 flag is not visible in perl scripts, exactly for the same
682reason you cannot (or you I<don't have to>) see if a scalar contains a
683string, integer, or floating point number. But you can still peek
684and poke these if you will. See the section below.
685
686=back
687
688=head2 Messing with Perl's Internals
4411f3b6 689
47bfe92f 690The following API uses parts of Perl's internals in the current
0ab8f81e 691implementation. As such, they are efficient but may change.
4411f3b6 692
7e19fb92 693=over 2
4411f3b6 694
a63c962f 695=item is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK])
4411f3b6 696
0ab8f81e 697[INTERNAL] Tests whether the UTF-8 flag is turned on in the STRING.
47bfe92f 698If CHECK is true, also checks the data in STRING for being well-formed
699UTF-8. Returns true if successful, false otherwise.
4411f3b6 700
a63c962f 701=item _utf8_on(STRING)
4411f3b6 702
0ab8f81e 703[INTERNAL] Turns on the UTF-8 flag in STRING. The data in STRING is
4411f3b6 704B<not> checked for being well-formed UTF-8. Do not use unless you
705B<know> that the STRING is well-formed UTF-8. Returns the previous
0ab8f81e 706state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't treat the return value as
707indicating success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is not a string.
4411f3b6 708
a63c962f 709=item _utf8_off(STRING)
4411f3b6 710
0ab8f81e 711[INTERNAL] Turns off the UTF-8 flag in STRING. Do not use frivolously.
712Returns the previous state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't treat the
713return value as indicating success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is
4411f3b6 714not a string.
715
716=back
717
718=head1 SEE ALSO
719
5d030b67 720L<Encode::Encoding>,
721L<Encode::Supported>,
6d1c0808 722L<Encode::PerlIO>,
5d030b67 723L<encoding>,
6d1c0808 724L<perlebcdic>,
725L<perlfunc/open>,
726L<perlunicode>,
727L<utf8>,
5d030b67 728the Perl Unicode Mailing List E<lt>perl-unicode@perl.orgE<gt>
4411f3b6 729
85982a32 730=head1 MAINTAINER
aae85ceb 731
732This project was originated by Nick Ing-Simmons and later maintained
7e19fb92 733by Dan Kogai E<lt>dankogai@dan.co.jpE<gt>. See AUTHORS for a full
734list of people involved. For any questions, use
b7a5c9de 735E<lt>perl-unicode@perl.orgE<gt> so we can all share.
aae85ceb 736
4411f3b6 737=cut